User:Yessel Garcia/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: "Rent Control in the United States" (link)
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate.
 * It best fits my area for my Needs Talk assignment

Content

 * Content evaluation

All of the article's content seems to be relevant to the topic but it seems that only some of it up to date. Lots of references allude to laws in 2019 or 2018 and some even older. I believe that the history section seems fairly small and is missing important court cases/ laws and the individuals who were involved in these political changes. However, there are a couple of sections where moral, social, and economic arguments for and against rent regulations that are slightly insightful, but some of those are also fairly short. This also lacks information about the type of communities that are in need of rent regulations. Also there are a number of sections that still need to be cited, such as in the section called "Mobile Homes."

Tone and Balance

 * Tone and balance evaluation

I do not think the article is completely neutral mostly because there is much more information in the section arguing against rent regulation in comparison to the section with arguments for rent regulations. In the discussion for arguments for rent control there is only an economic and moral argument which are both extremely small and is missing citations. Whereas in the section against rent control the economic argument is extensive and explains why rent control could be detrimental to the economy yet it lacks citations. This section also includes a social argument for against rent control while there is no social argument for rent control. It seems like the information provided is more guided against rent regulations.

Sources and References

 * Sources and references evaluation

Not all facts in the article have a reliable source, a good amount do not have a citation at all. However, there is a plethora of sources cited that are relevant to the topic. Only some of the sources are somewhat current dating back to 2019 -2017 while others can rage from early 2000s and even the 80s. I also found a source that either had a broken or missing link. It also seems like the references sections has quite fewer sources than the notes section and the sources in the references seem to be dated much older, where the earliest one is 2008. The reference section also has multiple sources by the same author and none of them I believe are historically marginalized individuals therefore it is not very diverse. There are some good resources but I do think that more are available out there.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions

From what I can see there has only been one short conversation about changing the "pro rent control" and "anti rent control" sections. The two individuals both also thought the sections were not very neutral/encyclopedic. This article is as C class and as high importance and seems to be involved with the WikiProject Urban studies and planning. And Wikipedia discusses this topic within the scope of urban studies whereas in class we take a more humanitarian and social rights approach.